In The can of Kant. David Johnson ... The accidental, the universal and the singular. In this way, Johnson conceptualizes the subterranean logic of the Borgean archive according to the main concerns of the Argentine writer regarding time, and the problems that arise from the contradiction between the time that passes and the identity that endures.
This analysis is carried out in a dialogue with some angular figures in the history of philosophy-such as Maimonides, Aristotle, San Pablo, Locke, Hume, Kant, Heidegger and Derrida-and some of Borges's most important essays and fictions. .
The contradiction between the temporal succession and the identity that Johnson elaborates, derives in a questioning of the possibility of the letter and the literature, in the weakening of the authority of the original. In short, Johnson takes the reader as a mystery that translates to the extent that knowledge and imagination, naming and decisions of attention and justice can be possible.